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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 24, 2012Gray County, Meade County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 24, 2012, 6:21 PM CDT for Gray County, Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 24, 2012, 6:21 PM CDT (23:21 UTC)
Expired
Aug 24, 2012, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS

Counties Gray County, KS, Meade County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 64 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2012-08-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 303 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2012-08-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 239 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
303 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-200 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
708 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
239 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
332 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WWUS83 KDDC 242321
SPSDDC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
621 PM CDT FRI AUG 24 2012

KSZ063-064-076>078-086-087-250000-
FINNEY-FORD-GRAY-HASKELL-HODGEMAN-MEADE-SEWARD-
621 PM CDT FRI AUG 24 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EASTERN HASKELL...EASTERN
SEWARD...GRAY...NORTHWESTERN MEADE...SOUTHEASTERN FINNEY...
SOUTHWESTERN HODGEMAN AND WESTERN FORD COUNTIES...

AT 616 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES NORTH OF 
CHARLESTON TO 7 MILES EAST OF HAYNE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

LAT...LON 3724 10078 3768 10074 3802 10068 3823 10016
      3771 10013 3751 10016 3717 10027 3699 10073
      3699 10079
TIME...MOT...LOC 2320Z 243DEG 20KT 3798 10056 3774 10055
          3755 10054 3735 10056 3710 10065

$$

WAH

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 24, 7:00 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningDDCTrego6 days
Aug 24, 3:32 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCStanton43 min
Aug 24, 3:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton, Stanton34 min
Aug 24, 4:01 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCGrant44 min
Aug 24, 4:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCStanton31 min
Aug 24, 4:59 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCLane, Scott46 min
Aug 24, 6:58 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCGray, Meade47 min

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.